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ipvs: autoload ipvs on genl access

Message ID 20211021130255.4177-1-linux@weissschuh.net (mailing list archive)
State Awaiting Upstream
Delegated to: Netdev Maintainers
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Series ipvs: autoload ipvs on genl access | expand

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Commit Message

Thomas Weißschuh Oct. 21, 2021, 1:02 p.m. UTC
The kernel provides the functionality to automatically load modules
providing genl families. Use this to remove the need for users to
manually load the module.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Weißschuh <linux@weissschuh.net>
---
 net/netfilter/ipvs/ip_vs_ctl.c | 2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)


base-commit: d9aaaf223297f6146d9d7f36caca927c92ab855a

Comments

Julian Anastasov Oct. 21, 2021, 6:24 p.m. UTC | #1
Hello,

On Thu, 21 Oct 2021, Thomas Weißschuh wrote:

> The kernel provides the functionality to automatically load modules
> providing genl families. Use this to remove the need for users to
> manually load the module.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Thomas Weißschuh <linux@weissschuh.net>

	Looks good to me for -next tree, thanks!

Acked-by: Julian Anastasov <ja@ssi.bg>

> ---
>  net/netfilter/ipvs/ip_vs_ctl.c | 2 ++
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/net/netfilter/ipvs/ip_vs_ctl.c b/net/netfilter/ipvs/ip_vs_ctl.c
> index 29ec3ef63edc..0ff94c66641f 100644
> --- a/net/netfilter/ipvs/ip_vs_ctl.c
> +++ b/net/netfilter/ipvs/ip_vs_ctl.c
> @@ -48,6 +48,8 @@
>  
>  #include <net/ip_vs.h>
>  
> +MODULE_ALIAS_GENL_FAMILY(IPVS_GENL_NAME);
> +
>  /* semaphore for IPVS sockopts. And, [gs]etsockopt may sleep. */
>  static DEFINE_MUTEX(__ip_vs_mutex);
>  
> 
> base-commit: d9aaaf223297f6146d9d7f36caca927c92ab855a
> -- 
> 2.33.1

Regards

--
Julian Anastasov <ja@ssi.bg>
Simon Horman Oct. 22, 2021, 11:26 a.m. UTC | #2
On Thu, Oct 21, 2021 at 09:24:34PM +0300, Julian Anastasov wrote:
> 
> 	Hello,
> 
> On Thu, 21 Oct 2021, Thomas Weißschuh wrote:
> 
> > The kernel provides the functionality to automatically load modules
> > providing genl families. Use this to remove the need for users to
> > manually load the module.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Thomas Weißschuh <linux@weissschuh.net>
> 
> 	Looks good to me for -next tree, thanks!
> 
> Acked-by: Julian Anastasov <ja@ssi.bg>

Acked-by: Simon Horman <horms@verge.net.au>
Pablo Neira Ayuso Oct. 22, 2021, 12:10 p.m. UTC | #3
On Thu, Oct 21, 2021 at 03:02:55PM +0200, Thomas Weißschuh wrote:
> The kernel provides the functionality to automatically load modules
> providing genl families. Use this to remove the need for users to
> manually load the module.

Applied, thanks
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Patch

diff --git a/net/netfilter/ipvs/ip_vs_ctl.c b/net/netfilter/ipvs/ip_vs_ctl.c
index 29ec3ef63edc..0ff94c66641f 100644
--- a/net/netfilter/ipvs/ip_vs_ctl.c
+++ b/net/netfilter/ipvs/ip_vs_ctl.c
@@ -48,6 +48,8 @@ 
 
 #include <net/ip_vs.h>
 
+MODULE_ALIAS_GENL_FAMILY(IPVS_GENL_NAME);
+
 /* semaphore for IPVS sockopts. And, [gs]etsockopt may sleep. */
 static DEFINE_MUTEX(__ip_vs_mutex);